Farm Day

Last week they had farm day at preschool. I got to go and took Caleb along with us. He loves to be outside and looking at animals. I didn't bring my camera but my sister saved me and let me take some pictures with her camera!

Celeste checking out the llamas

Caleb in front of the buffalo (you can't see them very well)

Elsie, Caleb, and Celeste

Funny story: After walking around the farm, Celeste needed to go potty. The potty there is inside their big barn. We went in and as Celeste is going potty, she says, "this is the bathroom the animals use...the horses go pee in this potty." I just chuckled. Love it! It was a fun day.



Ground Breaking

It is official. We are homeless. On Friday, May 4th we closed on our beloved first home. I miss it already. However, I'm super excited for our new house to be built. We closed on the property Monday, May 7th. That night for family home evening, we had a small ground breaking ceremony. Hopefully we can get started on the building soon and have a house again!

Here is our lot. It is on a corner and this is taken from the corner. It's a subdivision that doesn't have many houses yet. So what you see is more than just our lot; it's many. Our lot is about .34 acres. Big enough for us. :)

Here we are digging our small hole

Everyone had to have a turn

Those are the cutest homeless kids you've ever seen, right?

Caleb enjoyed stomping through the dirt as we piled it up

The start of our hole for our house :)

I will be posting updates as the house is being built for my keepsake. Hope you don't mind!

Celeste is 4!

Celeste had her 4th birthday on Saturday, April 28th! We started the day by going to the local "Books and Breakfast." They serve everyone free breakfast and every child gets a free book. Curious George was this years special visitor. Celeste was disappointed she didn't get to go see him because he left before we were done eating. While Celeste, Caleb, and myself were attending Books and Breakfast, Ryan and the Elders Quorum were at our house moving everything out and into storage. I didn't want to spend all of Celeste's birthday moving so we tried to finish up by early afternoon. The rest of the day included making a cake, naps, and just having fun!

That evening, Grandma Mikesell and the Botts (my sisters family) came over and helped us celebrate.

Celeste wanted pink cake with Pinkalicious on it. We couldn't find a Pinkalicious doll so Tinkerbell had to work. :) I am not as clever as most of you and not able to draw Pinkalicious of make a cake to look like her!

Celeste is very loved and got plenty of gifts!

She had lots of help from Caleb and her cousin, Elsie

She saw this water bottle in the store a couple months ago so we snuck it in our cart and bought it for her. She was so excited!

She kept making funny faces when she saw each gift!

Now she can go fishing with Daddy this summer!

We are so blessed to have Celeste as our daughter. She is such a sweet, nice girl. And one smart cookie, too! She has been reading (thanks to Grandma Harrison) for about 4 months now and keeps on going! She knows her math facts to 10 and can tell time. I could go on and on. Many people tell me what a sweet girl she is and it's true. We love Celeste to pieces!

Head Bands

This is just a cute picture of Celeste. She has been into wearing headbands just like her baby cousin wears! I think she looks pretty cute (despite her silly look on her face)!

Photography Class

During the month of March, I drove 30 minutes once a week in the evenings to take a photography class. I LOVED IT! I learned so much and can't wait to learn more. The teacher was fantastic! I get so excited thinking about the class and can't wait until she offers more! Here are a few of my assignments I had to do. All pictures were taken in complete manual mode.

Family

Silhouette 

Panning

Hands and Feet

(this is not Celeste)

Self Portrait (Yes, I took that myself)

These I was just practicing lighting

Thanks for letting me share! In April I took the same teachers Photoshop class. Again, I have learned so much! These pictures are all unedited but I have since done some touch ups to a few.

Celeste's Kite

I have to document this for my sake. On March 30th, Celeste's preschool class had a kite flying day. Each child was to bring in a kite and they went outside to fly them. We do not own a kite (and I forgot about it) so that morning before preschool, Celeste decided to make her own kite. She was SO proud of her creation and thought it flew better than anyone else's kite. (Which it did because it had a short string and there was no wind at all that day!) 

She'd take it down the slide with her. 

This kite followed Celeste around for days. It was so cute to watch her so proud of something she did. I love you Celeste!

Ryan

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN!

 Hope you have a wonderful day! Thanks for all your help today as we're packing our whole house!

I LOVE YOU!